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Title
Formation of Heterogeneous Skills and Wage Growth
Creator
Creator Name
Shintaro, Yamaguchi Shintaro, Yamaguchi
山口, 慎太郎 山口, 慎太郎
ヤマグチ, シンタロウ ヤマグチ, シンタロウ
Affiliation
Affiliation Name
McMaster University
Editor
Contributor Name
社会科学の高度統計・実証分析拠点構築 = Research Unit for Statistical and Empirical Analysis in Social Sciences
Abstract
This paper examines how primitive skills associated with occupations are formed and rewarded in the labor market over the careers of men. The objective task complexity measurement from the Dictionary of Occupational Titles enables a more direct look into the primitive skills of workers. I show that the optimal choice of task complexity is a linear function of unobserved skills, worker characteristics, and preference shocks, which implies that the observed task complexity is a noisy signal of underlying skills. Using career histories from the NLSY79, the growth of cognitive and motor skills as well as structural parameters are estimated by the Kalman filter. The results indicate that both cognitive and motor skills account for a considerable amount of cross-sectional wage variation. I also find that cognitive skills grow over careers and are the main source of wage growth; this pattern is particularly pronounced for the highly educated. In contrast, motor skills grow and contribute to wage growth substantially only for high school dropouts.
Description
September 20, 2009
Publisher
Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University
Issued Date
2009-09
Language
English(eng)
Resource Type
technical report
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VoR
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Related Title
Global COE Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series ; No. 88
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  http://gcoe.ier.hit-u.ac.jp/english/index.html
Number of Pages
38
Sponsorship
グローバルCOEプログラム = Global COE Program
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Global COE Hi-Stat Discussion Paper Series
URL
https://hdl.handle.net/10086/17758